Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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‘We have a right to determine how our histories are told’: An interview with poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London News 2015-11-25 Sarah Cox On Thursday 3 December the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS) and Centre for Feminist Research host a spoken word performance by Toni Stuart: poet, festival organiser and educator,…
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The history of interracial sex: It’s much more than just rape or romance. The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-28 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Carina Ray is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex,…
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Trevor Noah Brings ‘A Different Perspective’ as Daily Show Host NBC News 2015-09-23 Amber Payne, Managing Editor of @NBCBLK Trevor Noah is poised to take The Daily Show throne next week and the South African comedian says his biracial and cultural background will impact and inform his perspective as host. “It just gives me a…
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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature by Diana Adesola Mafe (review) Research in African Literatures Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2015 pages 166-168 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Mafe, Diana Adesola, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and…
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Trevor Noah’s World The Atlantic 2015-04-05 Douglas Foster, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What makes The Daily Show’s new host unique—according to South African comics CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When word circulated on Monday that standup comic Trevor Noah had been chosen to succeed Jon Stewart as host of…
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The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, and Japan’s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities Will Wright: Cinéma, Style, Race and Politics Permeate Our Lives. That Fascinates Me. 2015-04-09 Will Wright Thanks in part to the changing of the guard at The Daily Show, biracial experiences and related politics have made headlines, and snuck into our minds. South…